Word: freighted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Southern Pacific is proud of many things, of its new cars kept cool in Southwestern deserts by special aluminum paint and anti-actinic window glass, of its freight service, so efficient that a carload of potted lilies recently went through without a pot broken or a single flower crushed. But its hospitals have long been its especial pride. Most roads maintain a staff of nurses and doctors with emergency stations at important terminals. Only three roads have their own hospitals: the Illinois Central, at Chicago, the Central of Georgia, at Savannah, and the Southern Pacific, at San Francisco (250 beds...
...Faster trains between New York and Chicago were announced by Lackawanna R. R. The Boston & Main R. R. improved its Boston-Chicago service and put through faster trains throughout New England. The Pennsylvania R. R. cut one day off freight time between St. Louis, Chicago and the East...
Since U. S. lignite sells at from $2 to $3 a ton, exclusive of freight, the chief value of the new beds lies in the fact that they are in the immediate vicinity of the coal burning Canadian paper mills, the largest of which, the Kapuskasing, burns 500 tons of coal daily. With coal mines within sound of their buzz saws, Abitibi pulpmakers saw a chance to make newsprint still more cheaply for U. S. newspapers. Lignite, or "wood-coal," is geologically half way between turflike peat and smudgy bituminous coal. It is hard, looks like dirty brown slate, burns...
...site of the exploratory holes, provincial geologists claimed the entire district for the Ontario government, to prevent land speculating. Chief geologist W. S. Dyer estimated that the newly discovered lignite could be profitably marketed at from $5 to $6 a ton, exclusive of freight...
Chill, ominous fogs gathered over Pebble Beach, obscuring the fame of California's golden climate. Then up stepped young John Goodman of Omaha, the boy who rides to tournaments in freight cars and plays good golf when he gets there. (He won the Trans-Mississippi in 1927.) At this year's Open he qualified with the leaders, later putted disastrously to early elimination. Before Champion Jones's breakfast had properly settled, young John Goodman had won three holes. Jones caught him at the 12th, lost him again at the 14th, left the tournament i down. "I'm proud," said young...